New gallery over at the Adventurers' Club

My friend Larry just dropped a line to say that the The Adventurers' Club has uploaded a gallery of images taken on their recent excursion to Botany Bay and Cape Solander on the 6th July. The adventurers took in the rugged coastline and paid a visit to the birthplace of European settlement in Australia. Why not have a look at the excellent photographs and historical mementos Diamond captured with his brand new camera?

Macritchie Reservoir to Bukit Timah hike

My friend Siva went on a hike with some friends from Macritchie Reservoir to Bukit Timah in Singapore today. Wish I was there! These are some of the sights they may have seen...

Galleries Update

Linked up a number of the recent photographs taken in Singapore last week to the appropriate categories in the various galleries. Quick correction to a link on the Podcasting Workshop page as well. Thanks for the tip Lay Kock!

Trip to Taipei

I am in the process of uploading four galleries of photographs taken in Taipei back in 2002. Shao Ping and I attended her sister's wedding in Taipei and Kyoto.

Kyoto Photo Galleries

I have finally published a selection of the photographs I took in Kyoto back in 2002. Shao Ping and I attended her sister's wedding. Shao Chi married Roy and they now live in Los Angeles. It was Autumn in Japan at the time and the colours are quite amazing.

Storms across the Illawarra

A severe low pressure weather system during the days from the 8th June through to the 12th June brought heavy winds, flooding rains and big seas to NSW. On the 9th and 10th June Shao Ping and I drove to Wollongong Harbour and took a number of photographs of the heavy seas battering the coast. We walked across to the breakwater and took a number of images showing the waves crashing across the rock wall and soaking the spectators.

Festival of the Hungry Ghosts

I have been electronically rummaging through all my old digital photographs and created a few new galleries for the web site. There are photographs of the Singaporean CBD taken on an impossibly clear day as well as shots taken at Pulau Ubin, Jurong Bird Park, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve and Chinatown ~ back in 2000.

There are two other quite different galleries... one is of the Thai pop singing duo "China Dolls". I had gone to Bukit Panjang Shopping plaza to get a haircut and the duo were making a publicity appearance so I took some photographs of the performance and the crowd that had come to see them. Finally there is some photographs of my wife Shao Ping making offerings down by the void deck of our flat in Choa Chu Kang during the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. I like those photographs in particular.

Taiwan photographs added to gallery

I added a sequence of image galleries featuring photographs taken in Taiwan during 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004. Our wedding banquet is incuded!

Photographs of Malaysia added to site

I added four galleries of photographs taken at various points in Malaysia during trips made in 2000 ~ 2002. The photographs were taken in Johor Bahru, Pulau Besar, Tioman Island and Kuala Lumpur.

Bintan image galleries added to site

I added three galleries of photographs taken on the Indonesian island of Bintan during trips made in February 2001, May 2001 and January 2002. Bintan is part of Indonesia's Riau Archipelago and is only 40 kilometres from Singapore. There are a number of resorts on the island. I believe they are funded by Singaporean capital and are somewhat separate from the rest of the island. The black amd yellow mangrove snake in the photograph was one of the highlights of the first trip. Shao Ping and I were being given a tour of the local mangroves in a small boat and the mangrove snakes were curled up on the branches overhanging the water. I took that photograph holding my camera in my right hand and the branch with my left hand. Took a few quick snaps and carefully retreated.

Nikon D70 getting serviced

My Nikon D70 is getting cleaned. Yesterday some dust got into the camera when I was changing lenses and the cleaning job is a bit too tricky for me. I did some research on the Internet and decided it was best to get a professional to do the job.

Anyway I dropped into Wollongong Camera House in the mall in Crown Street, Wollongong and asked if they could clean the camera. They said they could not. I took off the cover on the camera body and I mentioned it was simply dust and probably not the sensor. As I took off the cover the shop assistant exclaimed repeatedly like a little child, "No, no, no, no!" She was so peculiar and her reaction resulted in my comment "Is there anyone in Wollongong who can repair a camera?" That is the last time I go to Wollongong Camera House. She was ignorant of her business. They sell digital cameras. They should at least know what is involved in cleaning and servicing the product that they sell.

We went to Jens Madsen in upper Crown Street. The service was excellent and they knew what they were talking about. The camera will be in good hands.

Photo Essay: "Welcome to my world"

Today it was brought to my attention that an online photo-essay that describes Singapore has been published online. The surprising thing is that all of the photographs in the photo-essay are mine and borrowed from my web site. The author finally tracked me down via this blog. I have now given the author permission to use the photographs. The creator of the photo-journal is a Singaporean now resident in the USA. She has an interesting and enriching live journal.

Anyway, the story that Yueni has written together with my photographs is quite wonderful in its simplicity and may interest you. Please follow this link to the photo-essay created by Yueni at The Sound Of Wings. I am quite touched by what Yueni has done with my photographs. She has given them a life and a feeling that I find very special.